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1 . I i I i ■ I I . , . i - , ■ . , I t t RESENT MILLERS ABSENCE. OAKLAND RACE-GOERS DEPLORE SENDING THE STAR JOCKEY TO SANTA ANITA. Racing Disastrous to Favorites but Well Contested and Attractive— Herz Charge Against Carman Dismissed. Oakland. Gal., January 2S. — Hundreds of racegoers have left for Arcadia since Thomas II. Wil Hams transferred the champion jockey. Walter Miller, and his racing operations to the perpetual summer race course iu southern California. This complimentary move of the California Jockey Clubs president deprives the hx-al race-going public of its chief riding reliance and the attendance has suf fered slightly in consequence. The three star jockeys of coast winter racing. Walter Miller. Eddie Diigan and Guy Burns, are now riding at Santa Anita. Todays track conditions were of the drying-out and deceptive variety, and form players were unable to make much headway in the way of picking winners. Only one favorite rewarded his hackers, and that was Balreed. which was of the receding kind in the opening race. There was nothing suspicious iu connection with the defeats of any of the other public choices or in the running of todays six races. Some of the liealen short priced starters were false favorites, others were beaten by better horses and in the case of False Nun and o»elaiulo. by inferior jockcy- ship. The card lacked a distinctive stake feature and only animals if moderate caliber were engaged. yet tin sport was good and clean enough ami enjoyed by fully t;.i*Hi spectators. The exquisite weather, however, was probahly the chief contrih- uting faolor to the heavy patronage. Kmil lvr-/. complaint to the stewards that trainer James Blute. of the Carman stable, had double crossed him on Saturday, was dismissed for lack of evidence. Herz was kept from betting oil Montgomery in tic Burns Handicap hy Blutes representations that Kirtenian was sure to beat him and then subsequently lost a large sum on Mark Antony II. . another Carman horse in the last race. while he alleges that Carman himself was back-I ing the winner. Deutschland. for thousands of dol-1 lars. Blute and Carman are said to have resorted to the same tactics in the case of Clamor, that they employed so effectively to prevent Colonel Jack from arriving on the ground iu time to partic-. ipate in the Burns Handicap, but Jack Keene frustrated them by being the first man to load his horse into the express car. in which six horses were finally and comfortably quartered.
